Key issues for planning futures and the way forward

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simin Davoudi ◽  
Sir Peter Hall ◽  
Anne Power
Keyword(s):  

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Leka ◽  
T. Cox ◽  
G. Zwetsloot ◽  
A. Jain ◽  
E. Kortum


2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (69) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Mønster

Juul, Moestrup og Olsen danner ligeledes optakt i Louise Mønsters “Et forbund af celler. Om krop, køn og identitet i ung dansk poesi”. I denne artikel diskuteres det, hvordan den nyeste poesi med navne som Olga Ravn, Christina Hagen, Amalie Smith og Asta Olivia Nordenhof er optaget af krop, køn og identitet, og det vises, at forfatternes utraditionelle tilgange til disse emner går hånd i hånd med en radikal eksperimenteren med poesiens udtryksformer og grænser.Louise Mønster: “A Union of Cells. Body, Gender, and Identity in Young Danish Poetry”In contemporary Danish poetry body, gender and identity have become key issues. This article discusses the way Danish authors such as Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Mette Moestrup, Olga Ravn, Christina Hagen, Amalie Smith, and Asta Olivia Nordenhofdeal with these themes, and argues that there is a strong tendency in new Danish poetry to break off from tradition. This is obvious, not only when the significance of body and materiality is stressed instead of the soul, and the concepts of male and female are transformed into more fluid categories. There is also a remarkabletendency to decompose genres, and so the article points out that the thematic focus on body, gender and identity seems to go along with a radical experimentation with poetic expressions and limits.



2009 ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Smith

- Reflects on how political changes that have taken place in the People's Republic of China (Prc) during the era of economic reform, together with changes that have taken place in the world at large since 1989, especially those following the collapse of Communism in Europe, have shaped the way in which historians inside and outside the Prc have written the history of the Mao era (1949 to 1976). The article examines both Chinese and western historiography of four key issues relating to the Mao era: the idea of the 1950s as a "golden age"; the Great Leap Forward (1958-61); the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and the view of Mao himself. The more negative representation of these issues derives, in part, from the fact that scholars now have much greater access to sources than was true prior to the 1980s. At the same time, the more negative representation it is bound up with political changes that have occurred inside and outside the Prc. For that reason, the historiography of the Mao may be said to represent an almost textbook example of the way in which historical writing is implicated in the politics of the present. Keywords: China, Communism, Mao, Economy, Historiography, History. Parole chiave: Cina, Comunismo, Mao, Economia, Storiografia, Storia.



2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Grapentin ◽  
Maureen Ayikoru

This study examines recent developments in destination assessment and certification as a basis for identifying challenges and benefits they engender, from tourist and tourism organizations’ perspectives. It uses online surveys and semi-structured interviews to collect primary data from prospective tourists and key informants on destination assessment and certification. The findings highlight the strengths and weaknesses of schemes currently in use, including various factors that might influence their future development. Specifically, the study finds that destination assessment and certification are affected by four key issues, namely, practicability, reliability, visibility, and (un)availability of incentives. It concludes that the manifestation of these issues and their ensuing complexity affect the way in which tourists and tourism destinations engage with destination assessment and certification. This, therefore, delimits the inherent opportunities and constraints within such schemes.



2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Senai W. Andemariam

Abstract:On 30 September 2015, the government of Eritrea issued Proclamation no. 177/2015, the Cultural and Natural Heritage Proclamation of Eritrea, to govern the country’s cultural and natural heritage. Instrumental in the inscription of the nation’s capital, Asmara, in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List, the Proclamation simultaneously governs cultural (tangible and intangible) and natural heritage. The author, the main drafter of the Proclamation, discusses issues and alternatives that were debated during the drafting process, lists the key issues in relation to implementation of the Proclamation, and suggests recommendations on the way forward.



1993 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 776-786
Author(s):  
T.M. Brown ◽  
P. Demarque ◽  
R. Noyes ◽  
F. Praderie ◽  
I.W. Roxburgh ◽  
...  

We have taken part to an exceptionally rich colloquium, characterized by a large amount of information in all fields of physics, and a remarkable collection of observational data. Our understanding of what is going on inside the stars has changed in a radical manner during the last years, on one side because the observations are bringing new kinds of information, and on the other side because theory in its development is taking into account a number of processes, some of them having been completely ignored only ten years ago.It is impossible to draw here a complete list of problems. There are many cases where some inconsistency could be found in the theory itself or some contradiction between observational data and theory. I recommended that such a list should be drawn carefully. The participants to the round table discussion will give their contribution, helping to open the way to new fields of research and to new discoveries.



2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Christina Fredengren

This keynote discusses how human-animal relationships can be studied as entanglements to understand more of the situatedness of human and animal bodies and lives. It provides a selection of thinking tools from critical posthumanist feminism and new materialism which should prove useful for studying more-than-human worldmaking through archaeology. These tools can be used to study how humanity and animality are produced, how to recognise animal agentiality, and to highlight challenges on the way. Key issues are identified in concepts such as taxonomies, hybridity, othering and killability. Examples are drawn from recently published research on human-animal relations in archaeology on rock art, depositions, sacrifices, burial practices and more. The paper also tests how speculative methods can be a way of approaching more-than-human exposedness, situatedness and agentiality. It makes an argument that while it is important to study the entanglement of bodies as material-semiotic phenomena, it is of equal importance to also address questions on inequalities and injustices, and who carries the burden in particular situated entanglements and thereby move beyond the study of entanglement on its own.



2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Steger ◽  
Ronald Hartz

Corporate governance was widely debated in recent years, in Germany as elsewhere. The question what “good” corporate governance constitutes and how it should be achieved stands in the centre of all those discussions. This paper critically draws on the German case. It tries to identify the key issues as well as recent changes in the character of this debate. It is argued that the reform spirit in Germany stands at the edge and needs some considerable refreshment in the near future



Author(s):  
Gary Spruce ◽  
Oscar Odena

This article focuses on music teaching and learning during the adolescent years by identifying and exploring key issues, concepts, and debates that particularly impact on, or are significant for, the musical experiences and development of young people during this period of their lives. A number of key themes emerge from the discussions that cause us to question assumptions about the role of music in the lives of adolescents, including how young people use and relate to music, and the way music educators can best meet the challenges of addressing young people's musical and wider needs in the range of contexts in which their musical learning and experiences take place.



Author(s):  
Peter R. Gibson ◽  
Janet Edwards

Considering some aspects of the motor industry as an example, this paper outlines strategic opportunities for e-commerce-enabled supply chains and, hence, greatly improved responses to customers. The authors demonstrate that there will be resulting strategic advantage for firms that become enabled to take a further step of making changes to their much wider manufacturing process philosophies. The developed knowledge associated with these changes will not be easily copied by competitors, and as such, provides the basis for a sustainable competitive advantage for those firms that are able to lead the way with the enabling technology of e-commerce in supply chains. However, leadership and change management are identified as key issues requiring further investigation.



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